Car setup "quirks" and tips

You'll never stop it being a lil jumpy...it's in the nature of the car but what you can do to help a lot is...

1. Take everything back to stock 1st off (except your performance upgrades) ("stock" setup has long been assumed the BEST setup on most cars)
2. Change the tyres to (tuners - Fujiwara) do 10 laps of the event track trying to hotlap and get the best time possible THEN change your tyres to  (Offroad  - challengers) 

Do the same 10 laps...see what tyres got you the lowest time and what felt better to you to drive consistent....and go with those tyres.


Hope this helps somewhat. 

I've read this whole thread now, and there is one thing that bothers me about the mentality here. You guys always want the easy fast or consistent setups. What you guys fail to realise is that harder cars forge better drivers.

When doing an event you are really serious about you should find 2 setups. One consistent for the event, and one hard setup for training.

And when you are done, keep the hard training setup.

I cant guarantee it will make you faster, but it made me faster, so much faster that i started beating my old osiris lap-times with my feltzer.

"many of the best drivers started in slamvans" quote smithy112 (might not be exact words but the meaning is unchanged)

Hmmm... i guess what i was trying to say was; you wont find those 1.5-2 seconds messing round with setups that make the car more manageable. Quite the opposite, it will most likely slow down you progress to get there.

But then again i could be wrong. I know my biggest weaknesses is lines and shortshifting on citytracks. You could say this is because I never had any cars with enough stability to reliably take lines half a feet from the edges. identifying exactly what your weakness is, is the fastest way to eliminate it

edit: never is a lie, i put offroads on my feltzer once. The result was a 1.02.5 on ccgp and one of the most hatefull experiences I've had on this game. (60fps and no active curb boosting). ref broughys time is 1.03.2

weirdtwitter short shifting isn't the easiest thing to learn tho, being constant and finding the ideal lines and setups is better. Being able to short shift doesn't guarantee that you'll be quick if you continue to choke, just ask Jluke :kappa:

There's a few things about your messages that bother me, I'll address them individually;



Not necessarily true. Some of us come here to drink from the fountain of knowledge, some of us come here to keep up the fountains maintenance.



I'd be interested to know what the track in question is. Saying that when I first started racing I was geting sub minute laps on Cutting Coroners - I thought I was the bollocks. Then I smashed my Zentorno PB with the Elegy (felt dirty and smashed the new Elegy PB with my Zentorno to restore the balance in the world). It's nothing impossible that you're claiming here. What you're experiencing is progression and improvement. I'd be more impressed if you were beating you Osiris times of now with a Feltzer.



Undoubtably not the direct quote. The Slamvan was introduced into the game in December 2014. I'm relatively sure the quote was something along the lines of using Dominators or difficult cars.



I'll beg to differ with you there. If you're taking a car that's tricky to drive such as the Dominator. With the right setup you won't be wrestling with the car to avoid it spinning out or sliding, and naturally will be setting faster laptimes.



Perhaps I can interest you in a setup or three



Calling out people who make shitposts - wait a second...

Beating Broughy by 0.7 of a second isn't really impressing anyone here. There's plenty of curbs on CCGP, mid-drive chances and shortshifting to take advantage of. Beating a WR time would be more impressive or even getting close for that matter.


The bottom line is this; if you've read through all of this thread (as you claim to have) you shouldn't need me to tell you that no promises were made at any point that any of this would make you faster. This is simply a thread for people to share their ideas about the tuning aspect of vehicles. If I can assist one person with the hours I've spent testing and looking in to the technical aspects of the game, then my job here is done. I've said many times I don't promise miracles - I'm nowhere near the fastest and I don't desire to be.

One final thing, if this whole tuning thing is essentially bullshit and we're all wasting our time. Tell me why two of the fastest guys in the game (PS4 and XbB1 respectively) spend time tampering with the setups they use?

Edit: Just one more thing: If we're all wasting out time with setups/tuning, tell me. What's this all about?


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Your move, sir.

No probs... I don't mind a difference in opinion. I just don't recommend taking a shit in someone else's pool.

I thought I'd previously covered this, but in for a penny, in for a pound...

"I know my opinion is unpopular" - I couldn't help but snigger at this and wish you'd put it at the start of the post.

I will state once again for the record, something I've said many times, but seemingly I should add it to my signature the amount of times it gets brought up; I don't promise miracles nor that anything I suggest will make a blind bit of difference. I provide suggestions, ideas, you're free to do with as you wish.

The point I previously made pointing out if you're not wrestling with a car trying to prevent sliding, understeer or oversteer was slightly facetious.
It went without saying. The point I always make is the right set up will make you faster (even if it's placebo - again note the right setup is entirely subjective).

I promote the trading of ideas as to what works best. Not to make you quicker/faster. But to eliminate as best as possible the car from the equation. So you can concentrate on the finer things like lines, short-shifting, etc in an effort to go faster. That is the ultimate goal for myself, and presumably everyone else.